> With hardware tuning, I am sure we can do better than 35Mb per sec. Also
WTF ?
My Laptop does 19 MB/s (reading <10 KB files, reiser4) !
A recent desktop 7200rpm IDE drive
# hdparm -t /dev/hdc1
/dev/hdc1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 148 MB in 3.02 seconds = 49.01 MB/sec
# ll "DragonBall 001.avi"
-r--r--r-- 1 peufeu users 218M mar 9 20:07 DragonBall 001.avi
# time cat "DragonBall 001.avi" >/dev/null
real 0m4.162s
user 0m0.020s
sys 0m0.510s
(the file was not in the cache)
=> about 52 MB/s (reiser3.6)
So, you have a problem with your hardware...